Yosemite Falls 2634 ft. high. View from the Merced River – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Yosemite Falls 2634 ft. high. View from the Merced River. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yosemite Falls 2634 ft. high. View from the Merced River
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Yosemite Falls, listed here at 2,634 feet, is shown from the Merced River, the vantage that made it a staple of nineteenth-century stereoviews. This card belongs to the "Glories of the Yosemite, California" series, number 145, issued by the publisher William I. Marshall in 1875. Marshall sold views like this to a public eager to see the Sierra wonders that few could reach in person, and the paired images of a stereo card gave the falls a sense of depth that a flat print could not. Its albumen surface and the valley's granite walls are worth noticing as a record of how these scenes were packaged for parlor viewing.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Title from item. Part of series: Glories of the Yosemite California. No. 145. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,893 × 2,801 px · prints to 16 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269750 |
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